Oct 2, 2018
‘One of the heroes of the war is the “petite voiture” or "little car." It has become endowed with a kind of personality. All the ambulance drivers write affectionately of their "flivver," their "Tin Lizzie," their " Henry," as they variously call it.. The little car is the ambulance driver's comrade de combat.
"It is a flivver! " says driver William Yorke Stevenson. "Just a plain flivver, the after overhang of which gave the outfit the graceful aspect of an overfed June bug."
"The Good Soldier": A Selection of Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918 -- Photo: WW1, Alsace, French soldiers and American ambulance drivers sitting on one of their flivvers, the beloved Model T Ford ambulances. Jean-Marie Picquard, France.
